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Child sexual abuse Prevention France History Louis XIV, 1643-1715 Fiction France Kings and rulers Fiction Imaginary wars and battles Fiction Magic Fiction Pharmaceutical industry Moral and ethical aspects Princesses Fiction Secrecy Fiction XIV, King of France Louis 1638-1715 Fiction Young adult fictionVanderRee, Kayleen
Summary: Two kittens were abandoned in a park. The women who found them were about to head off on a mountain trek. And the animal shelter was closed. The cats seemed game so their intrepid rescuers brought Bolt and Keel (so named) along for the adventure. It was the first of many. Kayleen VanderRee, an avid photographer, chronicled their trips on Instagram,and soon the cats’ adventures went viral. Stars...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 VANKoen, Karleen.
Summary: An ambitious young woman, Alice Verney risks everything for pride and status as she deals with the political intrigues, private passions, shifting alliances, and social machinations of the Restoration court of King Charles II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOEKoen, Karleen.
Summary: Assuming the responsibilities of governing France after the death of his prime minister, Louis XIV embarks on a love affair with his sister-in-law, Henriette, triggering a scandal that is complicated by a finance minister's growing power and a mysterious boy with an iron mask.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOEKoen, Karleen.
Summary: In the early 1700s, recently widowed Barbara Montgeoffry, the 20-year-old Countess of Devan whose husband died in scandalous circumstances, sails to Virginia for a change of air and takes over management of a family tobacco plantation. In Virginia she creates a stir with her conquests--despite being in mourning--and by freeing slaves. Disturbing news from England, however, send her home to take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOEKoen, Karleen.
Summary: Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man -- the man before Versailles? After the death of his prime minister, twenty-two-year-old Louis steps in to govern France. He's still a young man, but one who, as king, willfully takes all he can get -- including his brother's wife. As the love affair between Louis and Princess...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KOEKoen, Karleen.
Summary: As opulent and passionate as the 18th century it celebrates.Through a glass darkly kill sweep you away tothe splendors of a lost era. Like gone with the wind,it is richwith characters so vivid -- from aristocrats toscoundrels--they create their own immortality Here is thestory of a great family ruled by a dowager of extraordinarypower: of a young woman seeking low in a world of Englishluxury...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1986
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KOEVanderbes, Jennifer
Summary: 1943: When seventeen-year-old Juliet Dufresne receives a cryptic letter from her enlisted brother and then discovers that he's been reported missing in action, she lies about her age and travels to the front lines as an army nurse, determined to find him. Shy and awkward, Juliet is thrust into the bloody chaos of a field hospital, a sprawling encampment north of Rome where she forges new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVanderbes, Jennifer.
Summary: A riveting second novel that unfolds over the course of Thanksgiving Day as two families are connected by a horrific crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANVanderbes, Jennifer
Summary: "When the application for a new sedative called Kevadon--commonly known as thalidomide--landed on Frances Kelsey's desk at the FDA in 1960, it seemed destined to sail through the review process. The drug, billed as entirely risk-free, was already being sold in forty-six countries. But when Kelsey learned that the drug caused terrible birth defects, she and a team of dedicated doctors, parents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.78 VANFlanders, KayLynn
Summary: The kingdom of Hálendi is in trouble. It's losing the war at its borders, and rumors of a new, deadlier threat on the horizon have surfaced. Princess Jennesara knows her skills on the battlefield would make her an asset and wants to help, but her father has other plans. As the second-born heir to the throne, Jenna lacks the firstborn's--her brother's--magical abilities, so the king promises her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FLAVanderMeer, Jeff
Summary: "Before Area X, there was Ambergris. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris Trilogy. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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Summary: Goodbye Justice is a novel which takes place in the early 1950's in a small, fictional town, in northern Georgia. It accounts the harrowing, controversial murders of residents of the town divided by railroad tracks and stricken with judgement. Recent law graduate, Mary Grey, as well as hot-shot prosecutor, David Bullbarrow, and Sheriff Martwain Dukes must work together to uncover the chilling...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weber Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBFlanders, KayLynn
Summary: When Ren, who rules over a divided kingdom, crosses paths with Turian royal Princess Chiara, they must learn to trust themselves and each other as they work to defeat the deadliest of foes before there's nothing left to save.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FLAOwen, Marleen.
Summary: Presents dialogues providing the Dutch needed to speak and understand, and teaches the skills needed for listening and understanding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: CD 439.31 DUTHalleen, Toni
Summary: When surrogate mother, Cally has a change of heart, engineering a harrowing escape from the hospital with the newborn, a whole series of doubts and secrets are revealed and it's no longer clear what's "right" and what's "wrong."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALVanderMeer, Jeff.
Summary: Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014
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Summary: The aim of this story is to ensure all kids understand that kids with disability are just like kids everywhere. They love playing games, books, making stuff and being silly. They have things they are good at and things they need to work on. And just like kids everywhere they want to feel safe, loved and included. This book provides the reader with ways they can be more inclusive in their play...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Social Emo SandersVanderMeer, Jeff.
Summary: "In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened. In Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer introduced Area X--a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. This was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had already sold around the world and a major...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "This all-new definitive guide to writing imaginative fiction takes a completely novel approach and fully exploits the visual nature of fantasy through original drawings, maps, renderings, and exercises to create a spectacularly beautiful and inspiring object. Employing an accessible, example-rich approach, Wonderbook energizes and motivates while also providing practical, nuts-and-bolts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 VANSanders, Jayneen.
Summary: "Sir Alfred has a terrible secret. A secret that should never ever be kept. But who will poor little sir Alfred tell? Who can he trust? This book was written to provide children with essential skills in self-protection, and to encourage them to always speak up. " --P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: UpLoad Publishing Pty Ltd 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE Social Emo Sanders 2011Jones, Kaylie
Summary: After her wealthy husband and his mistress are killed in a car accicent, Marryn Huntley and her daugher retreat to Mexico to hideout at her mother's secluded home in Mexico where she must face certain truths about herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONKarlen, Arno.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1974
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2 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 977.4 KARBeck, Haylen
Summary: "Here and Gone is a gripping, wonderfully tense suspense thriller about a mother's desperate fight to recover her stolen children from corrupt authorities. It begins with a woman fleeing through Arizona with her kids in tow, trying to escape an abusive marriage. When she's pulled over by an unsettling local sheriff, things soon go awry and she is taken into custody. Only when she gets to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECVanderMeer, Jeff
Summary: "'Am I a person?' Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. 'Yes, you are a person, ' Rachel tells him. 'But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.' In a ruined, nameless city of the future, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm, the Company, until he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017